Category Archives: other games for Civ-fans

[April Fool’s] Firaxis, Mohawk Announce Sid Meier’s Older World

By | April 1, 2026

Just two days after releasing the Empires of the Indus expansion, Mohawk Games has announced what they are working on next – a dinosaur-themed strategy game. Sid Meier will be on loan to Mohawk to create the game that he described in 2022 as his “holy grail” game. Meanwhile, Soren Johnson will be spending the remainder of 2026 working with Firaxis… Read More »

Old World – Empires of the Indus DLC Released

By | March 30, 2026

Mohawk Games has released the next DLC for Old World: The Empires Of The Indus DLC. The new DLC obviously brings 3 new civilizations from the Indus valley (the Maurya, the Yuezhi and the Tamilakam), as well as the Huns, four new wonders, Hinduism and Buddhism, a new terrain type (jungle), new events and more. The latest episode… Read More »

Old World – Empires of the Indus DLC announced

By | March 2, 2026

Mohawk Games has announced today the next DLC for Old World: The Empires Of The Indus DLC. The new DLC obviously brings 3 new civilizations from the Indus valley (the Maurya, the Yuezhi and the Tamilakam), as well as the Huns, new wonders, religion, a new terrain type (jungle), new events and more. The DLC is supposed to… Read More »

Anno 117: Pax Romana – Free to play this weekend!

By | February 25, 2026

In case you might want to play something which is not Civ (although we doubt), you get an easy chance this weekend: The ancient city builder Anno 117: Pax Romana will be free to play from Thurday February 26 or Friday February 27 (depending on time zone) until Monday March 2. You can play the game for free… Read More »

Play BirdCiv, an online Civ2 version

By | February 20, 2026

Our user hibiird has been playing around with the programming language Scratch, and has programmed an online version which adheres rather closely to Civ2. He has released the first version of it, which is not yet perfect, but is playable with all features, like building cities, improving tiles, resarching technologies and fighting wars. If you want to have… Read More »

PolyCast 423: Formula 1 is Responsible for This

By | February 6, 2026

The Polycast team is releasing some of their old episodes, which were not previously published due to circumstances with the editing. You can now download the PolyCast #423, which is from June 2023. The thread for this episode is here. The four-hundred-and-twenty-third episode of PolyCast, “Formula 1 is Responsible for This“ is now available for streaming on the… Read More »

Demo available for “Folk Emerging”, the prehistoric civ game

By | January 30, 2026

We have posted already a few times about “Folk Emerging”, as it probably tickles every civ-fans interest: It is a turn-based 4X game, but you are not managing a civilization, but a stone-age tribe, who needs to discover fire and the wheel, hunt and gather for food, battle other tribes, with the aim to survive. And now there… Read More »

PolyCast 420: We Like Boats, and We Cannot Lie

By | January 10, 2026

The Polycast team is releasing some of their old episodes, which were not previously published due to circumstances with the editing. You can now download the PolyCast #420, which is from May 2023. The thread for this episode is here. The four-hundred-and-twentieth episode of PolyCast, “We Like Boats, and We Cannot Lie“ is now available for streaming on… Read More »